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Despite their deceiving appearence, these blue jean-clad scholars are the root of a legal education movement which former Harvard Assistant Professor of Clare Dalton says has caused a "crisis of faith" at law schools nationwide...
...Trubek himself found out that other voices have significant impacts on legal education at Harvard. In 1987, he and Dalton lost their bids for tenure at Harvard in controversial faculty votes and ensuing reviews by President Bok. CLS supporters have charged that in both instances the faculty discriminated against the left-wing scholars for their adherence to CLS, a charge which has taken the CLS debate from the classroom to the national news...
Right-wing and moderate Harvard Law School professors counter that argument, saying that Trubek and Dalton did meet the school's tenure standards. This spring, Bok, acting on the advice of a review committee of experts, upheld the faculty's decision to deny Dalton tenure...
...think [Dalton] was a victim of the battle that was going on at Harvard," says conference-goer Drury. "It was more a matter of the rest of the faculty trying to keep the Crits from getting a stronghold. If Clare Dalton is any indication, it seems as though the faculty is pretty set against letting the Crits get any real stronghold there...
Already, two female scholars who failed to win tenure have brought the University to court on charges of gender discrimination. Clare Dalton, an associate professor of law whose tenure case was rejected by Bok this winter, has appealed to the federal judiciary, as has Jackson at the Business School. While their cases are difficult to judge, the discrimination claims themselves underline the fact that Harvard is not welcoming women into its ranks with open arms...